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The Best Episodes of ER Season 10

Every episode of ER Season 10 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of ER Season 10!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    ER Season 10 Episode 1 - Now What?
    7.8/10(440 votes)

    #1 - Now What?

    S10:E1

    Carter returns from Africa, going straight to Abby's bedside. Her response to seeing him is to ask for her key back. She is very chilly towards him all day until new med student Neela Rasgotra answers a phone call for Carter. The message: Luka is dead. Carter decides to go back to the Congo to bring the body back. Neela has a tough first day in the ER, earning Chen's ire after Pratt flirts with her. Gallant, now a full-fledged doctor, helps to show her the ropes.

    Director:Jonathan Kaplan
    Writer:John Wells

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  2. ER Season 10 Episode 2 - The Lost
    8.4/10(661 votes)

    #2 - The Lost

    S10:E2

    John Carter returns to the Congo to retrieve Luka Kovac's body. He finds however that the area where was killed is still too dangerous to enter. He and Gillian finally manage to hitch a ride with a Red Cross worker, Debbie, who is going to the area. In flashbacks, we learn how Kovac and his fellow aid workers were taken prisoner by rebel troops. They are shot, one at a time, until only Luka is left. Amid the destruction of the eastern Congo, we learn his fate. Carter also makes a fateful decision.

    Directors:Christopher Chulack, John Wells
    Writer:John Wells

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  3. ER Season 10 Episode 3 - Dear Abby
    7.9/10(448 votes)

    #3 - Dear Abby

    S10:E3

    Luka Kovac arrives safely at County General and is hospitalized for treatment. His friend Gillian delivers John Carter's letter to Abby.

    Director:Christopher Chulack
    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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  4. ER Season 10 Episode 4 - Shifts Happen
    7.6/10(410 votes)

    #4 - Shifts Happen

    S10:E4

    Confident second-year resident Pratt wants to prove his abilities when he works the graveyard shift (11 p.m. to 7 a.m.), but his heroics sometimes backfire. Pratt shows contempt for a man, Ed Gamble, who presents no symptoms of disease but temporarily loses his speech.

    Director:Julie Hébert
    Writer:Dee Johnson

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  5. ER Season 10 Episode 5 - Out of Africa
    8.1/10(430 votes)

    #5 - Out of Africa

    S10:E5

    Ben Hollander is a distraught architect whose degenerating eyesight causes him despondent while a spirited new nurse, Samantha Taggart joins the staff. Elsewhere, disaster strikes when the doctors suspect a mother is abusing her child while Dr. Corday learns something shocking about the charismatic Dr. Dorset, and Dr. Archie Morris is overwhelmed by the chaos and grisly conditions of life in the E.R.

    Director:Jonathan Kaplan
    Writer:David Zabel

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  6. ER Season 10 Episode 6 - The Greater Good
    7.6/10(400 votes)

    #6 - The Greater Good

    S10:E6

    Pratt and Kovac clash over a miscarriage-prone young woman, Denny, who arrives to deliver a premature baby. Pratt wants to make heroic efforts to save the unborn child, while Kovac is adamantly against spending vast amounts of money to keep the forever sickly baby alive.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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  7. ER Season 10 Episode 7 - Death and Taxes
    8.0/10(409 votes)

    #7 - Death and Taxes

    S10:E7

    To everyone's amazement, Lewis makes a date to share a home-cooked dinner with the elderly Ben Hollander, her depressed patient who is going blind.

    Director:Félix Alcalá
    Writer:Dee Johnson

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  8. ER Season 10 Episode 8 - Freefall
    8.6/10(636 votes)

    #8 - Freefall

    S10:E8

    On Thanksgiving Day, a helicopter crash outside the ER leaves several injured, and kills Dr. Romano. Alex tries to bring Sam and Luka together.

    Director:Christopher Chulack
    Writer:Joe Sachs

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  9. ER Season 10 Episode 9 - Missing
    7.5/10(391 votes)

    #9 - Missing

    S10:E9

    Neela helps treat two Amish teens who were in a car crash. Sam argues with Dr. Kovac when he pays too much attention to her son.

    Director:Jonathan Kaplan
    Writer:David Zabel

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  10. ER Season 10 Episode 10 - Makemba
    7.6/10(446 votes)

    #10 - Makemba

    S10:E10

    Dr. Carter celebrates Christmas at a clinic in the Congo dealing with low supplies and anti-Americanism, but in the meantime, falling for an AIDS worker named Makemba.

    Director:Christopher Chulack
    Writer:John Wells

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  11. ER Season 10 Episode 11 - Touch and Go
    7.5/10(389 votes)

    #11 - Touch and Go

    S10:E11

    Carter returns to County General to hearty welcomes. Although Abby is shocked to learn that Carter's beautiful African girlfriend, Kem, is already pregnant with Carter's child, Abby has moved on with her life as well, going back to medical school.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Mark Morocco

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  12. ER Season 10 Episode 12 - NICU
    8.1/10(441 votes)

    #12 - NICU

    S10:E12

    Abby and Neela are assigned to a month-long rotation in the neonatal intensive care unit where they experience emotional roller coasters while caring for the sick infants.

    Director:Laura Innes
    Writer:Lisa Zwerling

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  13. ER Season 10 Episode 13 - Get Carter
    7.5/10(403 votes)

    #13 - Get Carter

    S10:E13

    Dr. Carter's girlfriend makes an impression as she observes ER operations. Dr. Gallant is almost shot during a domestic incident. Dr. Weaver dedicates a center to the memory of Dr. Romano.

    Director:Lesli Linka Glatter
    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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  14. ER Season 10 Episode 14 - Impulse Control
    7.7/10(396 votes)

    #14 - Impulse Control

    S10:E14

    Sam treats an abused, pregnant teen. Dr. Carter introduces African girlfriend Makemba to wintertime. ER chaos shocks a risk-assessment expert. Dr. Pratt and Abby restrain a man who has tuberculosis.

    Director:Jonathan Kaplan
    Writer:Yahlin Chang

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  15. ER Season 10 Episode 15 - Blood Relations
    7.7/10(385 votes)

    #15 - Blood Relations

    S10:E15

    Carter misses his pregnant girlfriend who has returned to Africa. A family of four is rushed to the emergency room after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from their faulty furnace--forcing the claustrophobic Neela to accompany a newborn baby into an extremely uncomfortable hyperbaric chamber.

    Director:Nelson McCormick
    Writer:Dee Johnson

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  16. ER Season 10 Episode 16 - Forgive and Forget
    8.0/10(426 votes)

    #16 - Forgive and Forget

    S10:E16

    Morris streets a patient without getting a psych consult, and the guy steals a tank and heads for County. Gillian is visiting Luka, and Sam's not happy about it. Luka and Sam make up by the end of the day though. A 13-year-old boy has chlamydia. Frank has a heart attack. Corday plays the dating game, going out with two men.

    Director:Christopher Chulack
    Writer:Bruce Miller

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  17. ER Season 10 Episode 17 - The Student
    7.7/10(387 votes)

    #17 - The Student

    S10:E17

    Carter sticks up for Neela when the other attendings doubt her future in the ER. Neela caves to the pressure and accidentally gives a patient the wrong medication. Gallant takes the blame for her though. Sam and Luka try to plan Alex's birthday party. Frank visits on his way to therapy. Chen's home nurse quits after her dad behaves poorly.

    Director:Paul McCrane
    Writer:David Zabel

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  18. ER Season 10 Episode 18 - Where There's Smoke
    8.0/10(501 votes)

    #18 - Where There's Smoke

    S10:E18

    Weaver rushes to the aid of her female life partner, Sandy Lopez, when the firefighter is severely injured while working and must now battle for her life. Frightened Weaver whispers hope to Sandy by reminding the victim of their newborn child.

    Director:Tawnia McKiernan
    Writer:Jacy Young

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  19. ER Season 10 Episode 19 - Just a Touch
    7.5/10(383 votes)

    #19 - Just a Touch

    S10:E19

    Pratt struggles to diagnose a woman who suffers mysterious chronic seizures. An attractive woman, Campbell, informally accuses flirtatious Pratt of sexual harassment. Abby ponders how to get her contentious patients' attention during her psychiatric department rotation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:R. Scott Gemmill

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  20. ER Season 10 Episode 20 - Abby Normal
    7.8/10(384 votes)

    #20 - Abby Normal

    S10:E20

    A panic-stricken Weaver is ordered to give her son to the Lopez family. Carter greets the returning Kem, but their meeting with his father, Jack, gets tense after Carter announces plans for his grandmother's estate.

    Director:Jonathan Kaplan
    Writer:David Zabel

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  21. ER Season 10 Episode 21 - Midnight
    8.4/10(492 votes)

    #21 - Midnight

    S10:E21

    Carter takes Kem to the hospital to check on their baby since it's not kicking anymore.

    Director:Julie Hébert
    Writer:John Wells

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  22. ER Season 10 Episode 22 - Drive
    7.9/10(395 votes)

    #22 - Drive

    S10:E22

    Kovacs stops to help a woman and her son whose car broke down. Steve is getting close to Alex, and Sam panics. Abby is looking for her letter whether to see she passed her boards. Pratt shows off his new Chrysler. Elgin tries to build a connection between him and Pratt. Jing-Mei might be battered by her senile father.

    Director:Jonathan Kaplan
    Writer:Dee Johnson

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Season 10 Ratings Summary

"Now What?" is the best rated episode of "ER" season 10. It scored 7.8/10 based on 440 votes. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan and written by John Wells, it aired on 9/25/2003. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "The Lost".